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09-25-2012, 07:28 PM
Carderprofit.cc Bust
Many people still remember the announcement Omniscient made a year or so ago regarding Carderprofit.cc, a blackhat site that allowed the discussion of credit-card theft. The soon-to-be administrators of Carderprofit.cc had initially offered to buy Hack Forums from Omniscient, but Omniscient refused. Instead of taking over Hack Forums, Carderprofit.cc paid for an advertisement on Hack Forums.
Carderprofit.cc allowed its users to buy/sell credit cards and stolen goods. Many of the users who joined had heard about the site through Hack Forums. A lot of people were curious as to why such a forum would be so public, but registered anyways. Not many knew what was going on until it was too late.
At first, many users on Carderprofit.cc were given status. Later on, the administrators tightened requirements to register or use the forum. At certain times they would require you to receive multiple vouches from other users or pay a fee using your real information. Seems like a great way to keep the experienced carders in, right? That's the point.
The experienced carders were kept in the community for a reason. As you can guess, Carderprofit.cc had been an FBI operation all along, and they had been monitoring everything. They had also been keeping track of the stolen credit-cards and had informed banks in regards to over 411,000 credit-cards.
After 2 years, they felt they had obtained enough intelligence, and shut off Carderprofit.cc. They arrested around 24 people, several of which we've known or done business with. Most notably Xvisceral, who provided thousands with Blackshades. Another notable mention is kool kake, who used to be an Anonymous Citizens member.
The following people were arrested:
This post is extremely late, as the Department of Justice already made a press release in June, but I thought it would serve as a good warning.
We don't want carding discussed on the site and we don't want our users being arrested. A VPN only goes so far.
Sources:
Many people still remember the announcement Omniscient made a year or so ago regarding Carderprofit.cc, a blackhat site that allowed the discussion of credit-card theft. The soon-to-be administrators of Carderprofit.cc had initially offered to buy Hack Forums from Omniscient, but Omniscient refused. Instead of taking over Hack Forums, Carderprofit.cc paid for an advertisement on Hack Forums.
Carderprofit.cc allowed its users to buy/sell credit cards and stolen goods. Many of the users who joined had heard about the site through Hack Forums. A lot of people were curious as to why such a forum would be so public, but registered anyways. Not many knew what was going on until it was too late.
At first, many users on Carderprofit.cc were given status. Later on, the administrators tightened requirements to register or use the forum. At certain times they would require you to receive multiple vouches from other users or pay a fee using your real information. Seems like a great way to keep the experienced carders in, right? That's the point.
The experienced carders were kept in the community for a reason. As you can guess, Carderprofit.cc had been an FBI operation all along, and they had been monitoring everything. They had also been keeping track of the stolen credit-cards and had informed banks in regards to over 411,000 credit-cards.
After 2 years, they felt they had obtained enough intelligence, and shut off Carderprofit.cc. They arrested around 24 people, several of which we've known or done business with. Most notably Xvisceral, who provided thousands with Blackshades. Another notable mention is kool kake, who used to be an Anonymous Citizens member.
The following people were arrested:
- 404myth
- Cubby
- Kabraxis314
- kool kake
- OxideDox
- Xvisceral
- JoshTheGod
- IwearaMAGNUM
- theboner1
- Badoo
- iAlert
This post is extremely late, as the Department of Justice already made a press release in June, but I thought it would serve as a good warning.
We don't want carding discussed on the site and we don't want our users being arrested. A VPN only goes so far.
Sources:
